Yair Furstenberg is the Louis Ginsberg Professor of Talmud in the Talmud Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the history of early rabbinic literature and law within its Greco-Roman context. In his publications he examines the emergence of Jewish legal discourse during the Second Temple period and its later transformation by the Rabbis. His current project "Local Law under Rome" funded by the European Research Council aims to integrate rabbinic legal activity into its Roman provincial context. Among his recent publications addressing this issue are “The Rabbinic Movement From Pharisees to Provincial Jurists”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 55 (2024): 1-43; “Rabbinic Evidence for the spread of Roman Legal Education in the Provinces”, (forthcoming in Law and History Review)